In Memoriam: Shane MacGowan of The Pogues 

Shane was very important to us second generation Irish growing up in the Uk. That love of rural Ireland , a yearning to be there, mixed with the excitement of coming of age in big British cities at a time when the Irish were still mistrusted and disliked. He made us proud to be ourselves. Great video, sir!

Shane RIP 🙏 thanks for your tribute. ❤

Thank you for recognizing Shane MacGowan as the brilliant poet he was. I feel the loss of him as deeply as I have felt the loss of close friends though I have never had the pleasure of meeting him. He is so deeply missed by so many of us.

Beautiful. The first 3 records are untouchable.

Fantastic and unforgettable tribute to Shane Mac Gowan. RIP Shane. A true poet, yeah 👍

As good a Tribute to Shane as you will find. “Mother of all our joys Mother of all our sorrows Intercede with him tonight For all of our tomorrows”

A Rainy Night in Soho my favourite Shane song…❤

Thank you for sharing this lovely and touching tribute for the poet and lyrical...magician/mad man that was Shane MacGowan. To give in to the trivial insanity that is cancel culture is to turn away from the full experience of this man's music and deny yourself the keenest insight; the most romantic of troubled souls. I will love him forever for the songs and the sentiment he shared with us all. To lose him and Sinéad within half a year makes the world a quieter (and decidedly more boring) place, but the voices they shared and the souls they bravely bared, will live on. RIP to an absolute genius.

Love this tribute, love Shane & Pogues, and agree “canceling” of Fairytale is ludicrous, those words are OBVIOUSLY used to show how toxic and abusive this relationship was at its worst moments. The song also shows the love & beauty of their best moments, that’s what makes it so brilliant!

I admire your passion about Shane’s poetry and music and appreciate your viewpoint. I wish I could sit down and buy you a drink and talk with you in a pub someplace. I am definitely very emotional about Shane’s passing too. He was so fully and unabashedly himself. He will be missed.

Shared this tribute. Brilliant. Fairytale of New York is fine as it is…it was written in its own time, and the words are the words. RIP, Shane McGowan 😢

Rest in peace Shane, wild genius of songwriting 🕊️🎤

"OK, it's time for sayonara" This simple, single line from my favorite song of theirs will forever have another meaning. Sayonara, Shane. You are missed!

Oh, I understand you so well! Fairytale of New York is my favourite christmas song and I'm all about Christmas and today was the day that I could start to listen Christams songs all day long (cos' my family won't mind it as much, cos' it's December) and I just heard the news that Shane died and broke into tears. I still can't stop crying. I always loved The Pogues and Shane, his music plays in the background of my best memories. I'll miss him forever.

Thank you for this tribute video. Very sad that Shane's gone. My mum and uncle both loved the great music he made with The Pogues, as do I. He was also a great lyricist. RIP Shane, he and Phil Lynott are among the musical talent in heaven.

brilliant tribute

I love shane. Such a bummer.

I'm so gutted.Just absolutely,totally and completely gutted.The Pogues were the first live show I ever saw.I loved Shane's writing,his poetry and story telling.His humor and swagger, everything.The whole package. I feel like a piece of my youth died with him.Its so weird.Nobody gets it..which makes it even worse 😢

Shane was in the style of a Brendan Behan, a Richard Harris, a Peter O'Toole. A genius at his craft, a great artist who celebrated his human flaws.

"One summer evening" is the opening line to a famous Wordsworth poem about time/change/nature. Shane a young London Irish punk sang "one summer evening drunk to hell", he knew his references. " A pair of brown eyes" A song about a drunk punk listening to a WW1/2 veteran in a pub. "So drunk to hell I left the place.....................and he birds were singing in the trees, while the wind was gently laughing"

R.I.P. Shane!

Great assessment of MacGowan's singular presence and talents. I wasn't sufficiently aware of the range of the man's literary education, though his poetic flair was evident enough. "Fairytale of New York", which I agree is one of the great Christmas songs, is my favorite Pogues track. Had MacGowan lived to see this Christmas, he would have turned sixty-six years.

Love the Pogues

Thanks Shane

cool tribute man,,he was born on christmas day too,has the biggest christmas song ever and leaves us on the last day of november,, wont see another one ,,not like shane macgowan,a true poet

I'm definitely playing Rum,Sodomy & the Lash tonight.

‘ He’s a man you won’t meet everyday’…….

RIP to the mighty Shane

Long lonesome higheay is my favorite song

While I appreciate your post, seriously you didn’t see the need to highlight Kirsty MacColl Re: Fairytale of New York? Kirsty died just prior to Christmas (18:12/2000)!!! But you referenced George Michael?

Cuchulainn…. Pronounced Coo Hull In……❤

Fairey tail of New York. The F word is what Irish people call cigarettes. Nothing to do with sexuality.

She calls him a fagut ant thats just a pile of stick

Sad ?? The man said he regretted not joining a terrorist organisation . His hero was an inla leader … you need to maybe question your morals